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Full list- A history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Hector Pieterson
- Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
- Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
- Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
- The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
- The Black Sash: A History of Transformation
- Khotso Seatlholo
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EventBurundi gains independence from Belgium
EventDinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
EventHamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
EventApartheid becomes official policy
EventThe Organisation of African Unity is formed and Africa Day is declared
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
EventWorld Press Freedom Day
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
EventLeague of Nations is formed
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
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